So after all this time, what is the established Redis alternative? Is is valkey? Keydb? Or something else? (social.touha.me)

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So after all this time, what is the established Redis alternative? Is is valkey? Keydb? Or something else?

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[-] dashcubeit@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

For me it’s Keydb. Good backing and dead simple to set up for high availability with master-master replication

[-] morethanevil@lemmy.fedifriends.social 8 points 1 week ago

I use Valkey and even Fedora has it in the repos. No problems so far, even changing Docker compose files to valkey works without issues 😌

[-] dragnucs@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

Great to hear it is a good drop-in replacement. I've been using KeyDB, but seeing valkey is more actif, I may endup using it too.

[-] hyacin@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago

Great to hear it is a good drop-in replacement

DB compatibility breaks at a point though (7.x maybe? Going off fuzzy memory) ... so if you're migrating from that version it's a little less "drop in" and more "oh shoot, this method doesn't work either?!? :'( "

Very happy after the 'migration' though!

[-] morethanevil@lemmy.fedifriends.social 3 points 1 week ago

Valkey is maintained by the Linux foundation Based on the last opensource redis 7.2 with many improvements

KeyDB is a project by Snapchat afaik 🤔

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

why does there need to be an alternative? is there something wrong or inefficient with it? is it just too old?

[-] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

My guess is it's the license change. From Wikipedia:

In 2018, some modules for Redis adopted the SSPL. In 2024, the main Redis code switched to dual-licensed under the Redis Source Available License v2 and the Server Side Public License v1.

Valkey appears to be a Redis fork that was triggered by the license change, but since Valkey still uses the original BSD license, I'm not sure I'd favour it over Redis since the latter switched licences specifically to prevent abuse of the BSD license by parties like Amazon.